Rapid transit crash injures 61 in Boston tunnel
In a Logan Airport area tunnel collision, 61 people were hurt as a Boston MBTA rapid transit train rear-ended another. About 1,200 passengers were aboard, 42 taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, 19 to Boston City Hospital, with cold and snow hindering rescue efforts.
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Logan International Airport
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Boston Harbor
Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harry Pearlman
Marblehead
Boston City Hospital
Leo J. Cusick
MBTA
Maverick
Cusick
Train Derailment Sparks House Fire in Snyderville
In subzero weather a Norfolk & Western freight train derailed near Snyderville, Ohio, sending an empty boxcar into a house and killing off duty railroad worker Jason Williams while injuring his wife Frances and three children. The house burned and was destroyed as rescue efforts continued.
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Springfield
Ohio
Snyderville
Here
Jason Williams
Cambodian prince rejects pursuit of Viet Cong across Cambodia
Prince Sihanouk says no right to pursue Communist forces into Cambodia and condemns both sides if clashes occur on Cambodian soil. Bowles arrives to press tacit accord for U S pursuit of Viet Cong and Vietnamese troops retreating into Cambodia. Sihanouk criticizes President Johnson and suggests Bowles tour Angkor temples instead.
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Phnom Penh
Cambodia
U.S
Chester Bowles
Norodom Sihanouk
Sihanouk
Bowles
India
Angkor
New Delhi
Cambodian
Vietnam
Associated Press
Johnson
UN Official Dies After Jump From Building
Pierre V. Stula, 46, a projects officer in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, leapt from the 24th floor of the 38 story UN headquarters in New York. A UN spokesman said the French citizen committed suicide. he landed on the roof of the five story conference building and died instantly.
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United Nations, N. Y
Pierre V. Stula
U. N. Secreariat
U. N
U. N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Weather outlook with warm trend and mixed precip
A warming trend continues through Tuesday with considerable cloudiness and a chance of light snow mixed with light freezing rain at times. Temperatures fall to the low 20s tonight and then rise again as occasional light rain returns Tuesday.
Ice traps 20 tow boats in Illinois River ice jam
Sub zero temperatures grip Grafton as ice jams trap about 20 tow boats on the Illinois River near the confluence with the Mississippi. Ice packs 10 to 12 inches form over days, leaving barges carrying coal and oil immobile awaiting relief.
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Grafton
Ilinois River
St. Louis
Mississippi
Guerrillas seize provincial capital near Saigon
Viet Cong troops stormed Kheim Cuong, the Hau Nghia Province capital, early today killing three American civilians and wounding 15 others. The attackers withdrew after five hours as government forces closed in, leaving 19 Viet Cong dead and five captured.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Kheim Cuong
Hau Nghia
Tan Uyen
South Vietnam
1St Corps
Fire destroys Philadelphia hotel killing none 325 residents rescued
A dropped match among newspapers started a seven story fire at the Normandie Retirement Club in Philadelphia. Nine alarms drew 500 firefighters and 75 pieces of equipment as 325 residents were evacuated safely while winds stoked the blaze and a rooftop helicopter aided in alerting upper floors.
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Philadelphia
Normandie
Center City
John Doyle
John Lucy
Lucy
Doyle
The
Johnson Eshkol discuss peace on Mid East visit
President Johnson and Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol toured the LBJ Ranch and spoke of peace in the Middle East and world. Johnson welcomed Eshkol at Randolph Air Force Base as both leaders voiced hope for peace and partnership. A second Houston fire killed three rooming house residents, with no cause yet determined.
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Stonewall
Tex
Johnson
Levi Eshkol
Placid
Lbj Ranch
Middle East
Shalom
Eshkol
Randolph Air Force Base
Houston, Tex
Houston
Carl Dickerson
Helen Hawkins
Clance Dickerson
Clock of Doom Advances Toward Midnight
A Bulletin of Atomic Scientists editor and scientist Eugene Rabinowitch announce moving the Doomsday Clock to seven minutes to midnight. The movement reflects long term trends toward nuclear catastrophe, not immediate events, with past readings noted since 1949 and 1963.
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Chicago
Eugene Rabinowitch
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
The
Bulletin
Rabinowitch
University of Illinois
Sach
Inowitch
Soviet Russia
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Great Britain
Illinois appoints Gwendolyn Brooks poet laureate
Governor Kerner announces Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks as the new poet laureate of Illinois succeeding the late Carl Sandburg. Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has 1945, 1946, and 1950 honors including Guggenheim and American Academy awards.
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Springfield
Gwendolyn Brooks
Chicago
Ilinois
Carl Sandburg
Brooks
United States
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Otto Kerner
Stanford Transplant Patient in Critical Condition After Heart Implant
Stanford surgeons completed the heart transplant for Michael Kasperak of East Palo Alto as he entered a critical state from severe bleeding. The donor was Virginia White, a 43 year old Santa Clara woman who died of a stroke. Doctors stressed the risk of organ rejection and Kasperak’s long hospital course ahead.
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Stanford
Calif
Michael Kasperak
Kasperak
Mike Kasperak
Virginia White
East Palo Alto
Norman E. Shumway
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shumway
Donald C. Harrison
Stanford Medical Center
Harrison
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Que Son Valley
U. S
4Th Marine Regiment
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da Nang
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Norman B. Shumway
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